Re: SSH brute force blocking tool

["J. Oquendo" <sil () infiltrated net>]

Tonnerre Lombard wrote:
> Salut,
>
> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 07:26 -0500, J. Oquendo wrote:
>   
> > So again... Some of you guys need to go back and read before you post....
> >     
>
> In this case, the NF wasn't in your original posting, so I could hardly
> have seen it. Still, there are problems with it, but not security
> wise...
>
>   
> > awk 'NF<=10&&($6=="nvalid"||$7=="user")&&$9=="from"{print $10}'
> >
> > Once you try a moronic name insertion it makes the columns more than 10 
> > rows invalidating it.
> >     
>
> In that case, your script isn't going to work in most cases. For
> example, on our router we get:
>
> Dec  1 13:35:24 rtsyg01 sshd[12178]: Failed password for invalid user
> asdf from 10.1.5.166 port 51558 ssh2
>
> -> more than 10 columns.
>
>   

And this is my problem how? The script was written mainly for myself and 
was passed on as
something someone can use at their leisure and expense. "Your script 
isn't going to work
boohoo" Is it not customizable to fit your need. I would think so all it 
is doing is text processing
no brainer there.

> Also, one of our customers uses user names which consist of two parts
> which are separated by spaces. This is due to his use of Windows. The
> users are called e.g. "John Doe", so you do an ssh "John
> Doe () servername asdf ch". In this case, your script fails entirely
>   

Again... Re-read my previous paragraph.


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